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CHRONOLOGY ACTIVITY

Using Patrician Calvert’s book, Daniel Boone: Beyond the Mountains, find the dates for these events in Boone’s life and times. Then write the date in the space provided. Be as specific as possible, including months and days where possible.

______George Boone and his family set sail for the New World. ______Daniel Boone is born in Pennsylvania. ______Squire Boone purchases 27 acres of grazing land in Oley Township. ______William Penn founds the “city of brotherly love”, Philadelphia. ______The Boone family leaves Pennsylvania and heads for . ______Boone family arrives in North Carolina. ______Squire Boone purchases 1,280 acres near Yadkin Valley in North Carolina. ______Daniel registers with the North Carolina and goes off to war. ______Daniel Boone and Rebecca Bryan are married. ______Fort Dobbs is attacked by a large force of Indians. ______Daniel Boone builds what is now known as the . ______Daniel Boone takes his family to to escape dangers of life. ______Daniel moves his family back to their home on Sugartree Creek in North Carolina. ______A group of men, including Daniel Boone, Major John Field, , and John Stewart set out to explore and seek free land offered by British. ______Daniel returns home to tell his wife about their free acres in Florida, but she refuses to move. ______John Findley shows up on Daniel’s Sugartree Creek doorstep with stories of a secret passage. ______Findley, Daniel, and a few others set out to find the mysterious “gap”. ______Rebecca, Daniel, and the eight Boone children travel to Castle Woods to join Captain William Russell, a pioneer in ’s Clinch Valley. ______Daniel’s oldest son, James, is killed by Native Americans. ______Daniel Boone and Michl Stoner locate a missing settler group in Kentucky. ______Lord Dunmore’s War ends with the surrender of Shawness Chief . ______A British proclamation forbids private citizens from purchasing land from Indian tribes. ______Treaty talks between Richard Henderson, Daniel Boone, and the begin at . ______130 American Minutemen battle British troops between Lexington and Concord. ______Richard Henderson’s Transylvania Company opens for business and begins filing land claims. DANIEL BOONE CHRONOLOGY ACTIVITY

______Jemima Boone and the Callaway sisters are kidnapped by Indians near the . ______James Fenimore Cooper provides a fictionalized account of their kidnapping in his famous book, . ______The Declaration of Independence is signed. ______The Virginia General Assembly resolves that land could not be purchased from the Indian’s without the colony’s approval. This voids the Sycamore Shoals agreement and keeps Daniel from receiving the 2,000 acres of Kentucky bluegrass that he had been promised. ______Chief Blackfish begins his first revenge attack on Boonesborough. ______Daniel is captured by Chief Blackfish and his warriors while attempting to get salt from Licking Creek. ______Chief Blackfish adopts Daniel Boone and he takes the name, “Sheltowee”, or Big Turtle. ______Shawnees attempt to recover Daniel, who has run away, and the siege of Boonesborough occurs. ______Daniel’s son, Ned, is killed in a skirmish with the , who think they killed Daniel. ______Kentucky is divided into three counties by the Virginia General Assembly. ______Daniel’s son, Israel, is killed in a battle with the British and the Indians at Blue Licks. ______Rebecca Boone gives birth to her tenth and last child, Nathan. ______The Treaty of Paris formally ends the American Revolution. ______Daniel Boone locates the mysterious . ______Lewis and Clark begin their journey up the River. ______Kentucky becomes the fifteenth state. ______Daniel and his family move to Limestone, Kentucky, where he becomes a horsetrader, land surveyor, and tavernkeeper as well as the owner of over 100,000 acres of land. ______Daniel Boone and members of his family arrive in Missouri and settle near St. Louis. ______Daniel is stripped of his property by American officials who deny the validity of his claims and agreements made with the French. ______Rebecca, Daniel’s wife, passes away after a regular workday. ______President supports a special act of Congress honoring Daniel Boone with 850 acres of land in Missouri. Debtors in Kentucky force him to sell every single acre to repay his past debts. ______Daniel Boone dies in Missouri, owning not a single acre of the land he explored and claimed. ______The US Constitution is ratified in Philadelphia, creating the of America. ______Thomas Jefferson buys the Territory from France.